Example: swipe from left to right or right to left would bring up some sprite. And swipe from top to bottom or bottom to top would bring up some sprite.

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Do you need this to happen whilst swiping, or is activating a new sprite after swiping okay? Because if you compare touch.X at the start of a swipe to the touch.X at the end of a swipe, you can work out whether a swipe is going left or right, and checking the Y variable will tell you if it's going up or down.